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"It made Chiang Mai prison look like a kindergarten," Moore said of the brutal and corrupt Bangkok prison. Moore was transferred to Klong Prem prison. "They took me from Chiang Mai prison to Bangkok which was 15 hours, with a catheter sticking out of my stomach." 39 surgical staples were used to hold the incision together. He endured several surgeries in the hospital before being transferred to a different prison. "The bike had split my stomach, I had a hernia and had infections," Moore said. Not long before his arrest, he had been in a scooter accident that left him with an injury to his stomach, which was aggravated by fighting in prison. It was at Chiang Mai that he got involved with the prison's Muay Thai boxing team. He was first sent to Chiang Mai Central prison. What year did Billy Moore go into the Thai prison?Īfter again being consumed by addiction, dealing and violence, he was arrested in 2007 for handling stolen goods and given a three-year sentence. "I got involved with underground fighting and found bad company again." He became addicted to crystal meth and ya ba (a highly addictive methamphetamine). He had started to train in Muay Thai boxing, the country's national sport. It was when he got back into fighting there that he got wrapped back up in drugs and crime. While he was clean, he even worked as a stunt double for Sylvester Stallone on Rambo IV. He arrived in Thailand in 2005 and taught English there. How did boxer Billy Moore end up in Thailand?Īfter getting clean with the help of a rehab program, Billy Moore took the trip to Thailand as a means to turn his life around, hoping to give up drugs, alcohol and burglary, and start fresh as a boxer and stunt man. In addition to burglary and drugs, he has also been convicted for violence, robbery and dangerous driving. He had been in and out of UK prisons long before his incarceration in Thailand, doing his first prison stint at age 17. In researching the A Prayer Before Dawn true story, we learned that the Liverpool-born Moore has spent a total of 15 years behind bars in 22 different prisons, mainly for burglary and drug offenses, often using the one to fuel the other.